Настоящее простое или настоящее длительное время

The Present Simple(Indefinite)Tense vs. the Present Continuous(Progressive)Tense

Глаголы состояния

Stative Verbs

EXERCISES

Exercise 1. Distribute the verbs into Action Verbs and Stative Verbs.
admit come hate lose remember teach
agree contain hear love say travel
agree cost help mean see understand
appear depend jump own seem want
believe drink laugh play sing watch
belong eat learn prefer sleep wish
call fall leave rain swim work
care forget like read take write
Action Verbs Stative Verbs
   
Exercise 2. Choose the correct form of the verb.
1. He ____ (writes/is writing) a new novel now.
2. The farmer ____ (owns/is owing) the land.
3. I ____ (study/am studying) economics at a business school.
4. The instructor ____ (explains/is explaining) the safety rules at the moment.
5. I ____ (expect/is expecting) they will be late.
6. He ____ (wants/is wanting)some more biscuits.
7. It ____ (rains/is raining) hard today.
8. He ____ (hates/is hating)the show they are watching on TV now.
9. The box ____ (contains/is containing) old books.
10. I’m afraid I ____ (don’t remember/am not remembering) where we met.
Exercise 3. Choose the correct sentence in each pair.
1. a) Are you having an English dictionary?
b) Do you have an English dictionary?
2. a) What are you thinking about?
b) What do you think about?
3. a) Wild flowers smell nice.
b) Wild flowers are smelling nice.
4. a) Tom looks out of the window.
b) Tom is looking out of the window.
5. a) I am thinking about the plan.
b) I think about the plan.
6. a) The food tastes delicious.
b) The food is tasting delicious.
7. a) I see my family next Sunday.
b) I’m seeing my family next Sunday.
8. a) I feel we should go home now.
b) I am feeling we should go home now.
Exercise 4. Complete the conversation. Put the verb into the correct form, the Present Continuous or the Present Simple.
Linda: Martin: Linda: Martin: Linda: Martin: Linda:   Martin: Linda: Martin: Linda: Hi, Martin What 1.____ you ____ (look) at? Oh, hi! These are photos of me when I was a child. Oh, look at this one. I 2.____ (think) you look lovely, Martin. I 3.____ (have) some more photos here. Look at this. Why such a big jacket? It was my brother’s. That’s why it 4.____ (not fit) properly. Oh, I 5.____ (see). And you 6.____ (have) your tea here. And in this one you 7.____ (think) about something very serious. This is a photo of the city I 8.____ (come) from. Oh, that’s nice. And I caught this fish, look. It 9.____ (weigh) about half a kilo. What a nice little boy!
Exercise 5. Are the underlined verbs right or wrong? Correct them where necessary.
1. Can you hear those people? What do they talk about?
2. Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.
3. The water boils. Can you turn it off?
4. We arent going to the theatre very often.
5. I read a newspaper at least once a week.
6. Sonia and Dan do quite well at school at the moment.
7. Helen is talking on the other phone right now.
8. Let’s go out. It doesnt rain now.
9. We are usually growing vegetables in our garden.
10. Normally I finish work at five.

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